 Forty
years after Roe v. Wade, we are just now learning the back history to
the Supreme Court decision that allowed abortion on demand to become a
national policy.
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 As
Republican Rep. John Shimkus turned his line of questioning of
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to coverage of abortion procedures, one of
his colleagues on the House Energy and Commerce Committee made her
opinion of the question obvious. "
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 Britain's
highest court has ruled in favor of a hospital that gained court
approval to withhold treatment from a terminally ill man despite the
family's opposition.
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 At
Yale's first annual pro-life conference, advocates emphasized moving
beyond current pro-life efforts to more directly address the issues and
understandings of persons who don't see the dignity of all human life.
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 A
ban on abortions when an unborn baby can feel pain took effect in Texas
today, one day after a federal judge blocked other new restrictions on
abortion practices in the state.
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 One
thing Mary does not like, however, is contraception. Being on the pill
made her "crazy"; getting an IUD felt, she says evocatively, "like
having a hair caught in my throat"; and condoms "just don't feel good."
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 Government-friendly
environment and development aid NGOs avoid this one like the plague:
they never say the world is massively overpopulated and left that role
for a few privileged hard line speakers - like Obama's chief science
adviser John P. Holdren, guru ecologist Paul Ehrlich, the Club of Rome
and its WorldShift Network, and a few others.
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